CNN reports on the latest Donald Trump-engineered minefield for Republicans up for election in 2020 to navigate, the forthcoming nomination of two controversial figures to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve: conservative columnist Stephen Moore formerly of the Wall Street Journal, and more controversially Herman Cain, the 2012 presidential candidate whose campaign collapsed under the dual revelations of Cain’s gross incompetence and extensive womanizing.
The concern over Cain in particular has grown so great that it appears Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is taking the rare step of allowing Republican Senators to publicly grouse:
During Tuesday afternoon’s Senate Republican lunch, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell advised senators concerned about Trump’s selection of former presidential candidate and pizza executive Herman Cain and conservative economic commentator Stephen Moore to share their views with the White House now, before Trump officially moves forward with the nominations, a source familiar with the remarks told CNN…
Aiming to avoid a public fight over the confirmation, some Republicans hope to persuade Trump to reconsider ahead of Cain’s official nomination.
The problem, as Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado discovered shortly afterward, is that the “fight” is already public:
“No,” Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado quickly responded when asked if he would support Cain.
But, says Sen. Gardner, and this is a key point:
“It’s not about his past. [Pols emphasis] It’s about who I think should be on the board,” the senator explained. “So that’s that.”
Unfortunately “that’s that” isn’t a satisfactory explanation in the least for why Sen. Gardner would oppose Cain’s nomination, yet specifically exclude Cain’s “past” from his reasoning. But there is an explanation for Gardner being cagey: in October of 2016, after the tape of now-President Trump bragging about his ability as a television star to sexually assault women surfaced to bipartisan condemnation, Sen. Gardner called on Trump to pull out of the race, saying “I cannot and will not support someone who brags about degrading and assaulting women.” In January, Gardner endorsed Trump’s re-election in 2020, saying he “likes” the President and thinks Colorado should get the chance to like him too. Gardner has yet to offer an explanation for this, uh change of heart that would reassure women voters who took him at his word the first time.
But once Gardner let Trump off the hook he can’t really condemn Herman Cain, can he? Or anybody else.
It’s kind of a problem.
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"It's not about his past."
Whatever…… Let's see if he sticks to that position and votes against Cain. My guess is that Trump doesn't go through with the nomination.
Cory’s holding out for Roger Ailes? Bill O’Reilly?? . . .
Gardner may be opposed now (. . . who can ever tell for sure when all you’ve got to go on is what he says? . . .), but after tRump says “jump,” you can bet he’ll be plenty posed!
Remember that $rump is a reality TV producer. He knows drama, and psyching his audience out with plot twists and fake outs. So we got truly awful and incompetent acting AG Whittaker before we got the seemingly competent and experienced AG Barr.
And Barr is now showing himself to be utterly unprincipled, throwing around accusations of spying and treason against the very intelligence agents who exposed $rump’s treason, and the spying of his foreign allies against our democracy.
So I expect that the clownish Cain is just an appetizer, comic relief for the Shakespearean tragedy with the pile of bodies at the end, someone we can (as $rump’s captive audience) be relieved about when he doesn’t get the job, when the lethal (but smooth talking, “professional” seeming ), scorpion ultimately lands the position.
I wonder if anyone has told Trump there is no such thing as an "acting" Federal Reserve Governor?
Baby steps . . .
. . . he just learned today who Washington DC was named for?
(Appperently they’d never covered that before on FOX — he mighta’ been left thinking it was for an Australian band??)
Perhaps the state out West.
He has to hate Washington at least a little. He's McCain's cousin.